Word: bet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...willing to bet practically anything that TIME will elect either Roosevelt or Churchill as Man of the Half-Century. Yet surely the scientific discoveries of Albert Einstein have had a much more far-reaching effect...
...London, Connecticut is the best bet to get the mill in the end. Ample acreage, good port facilities and railroads, an excellent fresh water supply in the Thames River, plus a proximity to the firearms and precision instrument factories in southern New England, all make New London the most logical site. New London would like the will, furthermore, because the city has felt serious unemployment with the closing down of so many Coast Guard activities; like all the other cities, New London would be glad to see the 20,000 to 30,000 jobs that the mill would make whether...
Overheated from the tea, I followed a group of freshmen infiltrating into the ballroom, in search of chocolate milk and root beer. "Now, I bet YOU play the piano!" a young lady was saying. "Not even chop sticks!" (She wiggled two fingers in the air to simulate the playing of chop-sticks.) "Hmm. There must be someone here...," she said, looking around the room...
...failed to realize that they are dealing not with literary productions, but with the crude, unshaped, often hollow, lumps of expression that come out of the undergraduate, or "afflatus," period in a writer's development. With absolute respect for the contributors to the current issue, I'm willing to bet that six out of the seven will soon be ashamed that these fragments were ever set in type. This writing has to be done, if these folks are ever going to be writers, but there is no law which states that it must be published and read...
...farmer's germs were a special strain. They had licked their weight in penicillin, and come back to knock out streptomycin, chloramphenicol and aureomycin. Unchecked, they were a sure bet to kill the farmer. Dr. Garfield G. Duncan pitted the tough germs in a test tube against neomycin. The drug murdered them...